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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Overall, how was Solomon likely to feel about John Tibeats?
(a) That he did not know how to fight.
(b) That he should be able to handle him.
(c) That he was actually a coward.
(d) That he made threats, but was not capable of carrying them out.

2. What was an important factor to the slaves at the time that they were sold?
(a) That slave family members be sold and kept together.
(b) That their physical strengths be accurately given to the buyers.
(c) That feuding slave family members be sold to different dealers.
(d) That they be sold for the highest price possible.

3. If at any time during his travels with Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton, Solomon felt any doubt about their true motive, what did he base it upon?
(a) Solomon never saw the circus.
(b) Brown and Hamilton became overly anxious to get to Washington City.
(c) Brown and Hamilton changed the trio's original destination.
(d) Brown and Hamilton traveled very slowly.

4. What major error did Solomon commit with respect to his perception of Brown and Hamilton?
(a) He considered them to be sincere in their actions toward him.
(b) He considered them to be his friends.
(c) He considered both men to be quite entertaining.
(d) He considered himself lucky to have met them.

5. Why did Solomon trust Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton when he first met them?
(a) They recognized his violin-playing potential.
(b) They offered him an opportunity to earn high wages.
(c) They were violin music composers.
(d) They gave him the impression that they had his best interest in mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the most part, how did Solomon consider his life as a slave for William Ford to be?

2. What did Solomon learn while spending time in the yard outside Williams' Slave Pen?

3. What could be said about the type of access that Solomon and the other slaves had with respect to the yard that surrounded Williams' Slave Pen?

4. Which of the following was one thing that Tibeats had a reputation of using when trying to out-maneuver his enemies?

5. Why did Chapin send for Ford when he was the overseer of Ford's Plantation?

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